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I hear about it all the time: Someone goes out in the woods. They hear a tree limb fall, they feel pine cones falling, the apple they put out moved... they hear an owl. They tell others a BF broke a limb, tossed pine cones at them, moved the apple and mimicked an owl. Now I might be wrong.... but I think confirmation bias to hard at work here. These mundane things can all be explained in nature, but the person with BOTB will become irate if you suggest reasonable causes for their "encounters". It's happens constantly in this field.

^That logic is totally delusional. If the evidence was that solid then it would already be accepted, but it's not. There is no conspiracy, no laziness by science, or any other excuse for it. You're in such a state of denial that the field is at a dead end that you want to blame everyone else for it. Excuses seem to run rampant in every single aspect of this field- from the lack of fossils, bones, specimens, lack of DNA, hair, poop, the inability to capture them on game cams, government cover ups, forestry cover ups, other dimensions, the list goes on and on and on. Now there's excuses for why science won't accept it or the rest of the world for not seeing the light. It's all deflection and blame away from the obvious- that Bigfoot and reality are having a very poor relationship. If you're so confident that it's great evidence then take it to your local university, show the professors and get their opinion. Let us know what they actually tell you. If the believers don't have enough faith to be proactive towards their own cause then that should tell you how rock solid the evidence is right there.

You are right. There is no real mystery. Mankind has known about these animals for tens of thousands of years.They are a primitive member of the genus Homo. They, like Homo Sapiens, have diversity in their appearances, body shapes & sizes, hair types, eye colors, vocalizations, traits and habits. Forensic Hair experts have long classified human hair sample by three basic types:Caucasoid (European), Mongoloid (Asian) and Negroid (African). There are at least three "types" of Bigfoot. Each "type" has hair which is nearly identical to one of those basic human hair classifications. When earlier settlers actually killed some of these creatures to protect their homes and livestock, the settlers had no access to scientists nor had any interest in the "science" of Bigfoot. (The body of a young Bigfoot was for many years displayed in the court house of a very rural, deep-south county. It was only removed in modern times by a high level official in the state's fish and wildlife agency who went there, along with a field warden, to testify in a trial. That fact was confirmed by many older residents - some were previous county officials and law enforcement officers.) Generally science nor federal and state wildlife agencies have wanted any part of the Bigfoot situation during the years. To them the declaration that the animals exist would be an uncontrollable bomb. And they are right for many reasons. But now, because of the human DNA carried by the animals, a Presidential Memo issued by Mr. Obama, and directed at every division of of federal government and every science lab in the country that receives, directly or indirectly, funds from the federal government, is prohibited from scientific examinations or research on "humans" without their written permission. (The law provides that if a scientist(s) know that such actions have occurred, and does not report it to the feds, they will be punished.) The DOI and the DOA - with help from any branch of the military they need at any time - are doing all they can to provide huge areas which are designed to try to make accidental encounters between average folks and the animals less likely. (Based on the huge increase in the number of sighting reports during the last few years, the worth of those projects are questionable.) Bottom line: The tens of thousands of folks that know about these animals, and don't want them "shot and put on the slab" should be somewhat content. Those that don't know and don't care are probably better off. Those that are certain in their own minds they don't exist but want to convince those that know that they are just fooling themselves are simply SOL and will have to be content banging the keyboard.

Henner F was calling the hair "like a humans" back when you "believed". This has not changed in decades, but sure, blame it on me because it's been obvious since the Sierra Sounds were recorded and Patty's walk was captured nearly fifty years ago. The walk, the talk, the tracks and the hairs are cogent and always have been.

I'll answer your question with another. If all ape species evolved in Africa? Do you think Gigantopethicus started its jouney looking as it did when we find it in the fossil record in Asia? The great apes still extant today are seperated by millions of years. Check me here but Human to Chimp is like four million years and chimp to orang is something like 12 million years. also Lucy is our direct ancestor and her kind were roughly four feet tall. And yes i think there are a number of candidates that could be the ancestor to a north American hominoid.

I think it is factally to say that until the species is proven to exist? We quite frankly do not know if the species is at risk of extinction or not. We need real time biology at the federal level to answer that question. Grizzly bears are on the endangered species list in the lower 48 and is completly extinct in much of its former habitat here. They are not endangered in other such places such as Alaska or Siberia. Its not a simple yes or no question.

Make a recording of it next time, and document the time of day. We'll compare it to the knocks that occur in the middle of the night while those crows are sleeping.

I'm reimbursed in gold the joy of reading your hilarious "wooooooo" postings. Please carry on.

Change in mindset, change in the culture. Look at the newspaper articles from 1850. We came from a decidedly "conquer the wilderness" mindset where everything not under cultivation or domesticated was seen in a negative light ... look what we did to wolves, grizzly bears, and Native Americans. Now we look back and most feel a twinge of guilt or at least regret. Why should our view of bigfoot / wildmen / "what is it"s be any different? Why would it not change just like our view of everything else? I'd be surprised if it were otherwise. Most likely, we were going too far one direction before, too far the other now ... that's how us humans operate. We do not stop at balance, we just pass it at high speed going overboard in one direction, then again going in the other. MIB

I doubt you saw everything in that forest. I have spent a lifetime in Washington and have never seen a Lynx, Wolverine, Fisher or Caribou. I've seen a Grizzly once and Cougar outside of hunting with hounds a few times. We have people with scientific backgrounds claiming to have seen something, same goes for people belonging to government agencies. So what? If in your 700 hours of study in the field resulted in you seeing one? What would it change? Absolutely nothing. Other than the fact that you would be a knower instead of a skeptic right now. Otherwise nothing would be different. We need proof of course. But most are woefully unprepared to collect it if the opportunity presents itself. 1) as already noted, some animals need you to devote much more time and energy than others to go looking for them. 2) discoveries require more than a sighting by a scientist.